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so by law women did not serve on an equal basis with men. women were also not permitted to attend service academies. at this time it was legal only to assign women to hospital or transport ships. bud understood that the culture believed women should avoid aggressive activities, but once again he took another view, and here's his view. i want to quote it. i have no problem supporting women in combat for two reasons. one, i remember well my grandmother's stories about fighting off the indians along with her husband as they crossed the plains and, two, the most vicious and cunning enemy i ever had to fight was a viet cong woman. close the quote. so in 1971 bud formed one of these wave retention groups. retention groups were these groups that he created to study problems in the navy; race relations, women in the navy, etc. and these, this wave retention group revealed general dissatisfaction with the reality that women were still being assigned primarily as receptionists and coffee runners, right, and receiving assignments based on their compete
so by law women did not serve on an equal basis with men. women were also not permitted to attend service academies. at this time it was legal only to assign women to hospital or transport ships. bud understood that the culture believed women should avoid aggressive activities, but once again he took another view, and here's his view. i want to quote it. i have no problem supporting women in combat for two reasons. one, i remember well my grandmother's stories about fighting off the indians...
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i was fortunate because is a great law school. like the one you have here at university of texas, austin. i did pretty well and law school. one of the things you do well, you hope you can clerk. i was chosen by justice powell. the supreme court is an amazing institution, for those of you who haven't thought much about. it's the only part of government with the senior most people do all the work. think about it. supreme court justices read the briefs and listen to all those arguments. it doesn't work that way with senators or congressmen or presidents. they have people who given summaries of things. it's a great institution. the most important thing for me was just justice powell. he was a truly extraordinary men, someone i worship, became very close with. learning from him and his judgments about people and how to trust people, how to make decisions, how to have the courage of his convictions, the same time to keep as much open, taught me much of what i learned about leadership. >> when i resort about a book on walter cronkite --
i was fortunate because is a great law school. like the one you have here at university of texas, austin. i did pretty well and law school. one of the things you do well, you hope you can clerk. i was chosen by justice powell. the supreme court is an amazing institution, for those of you who haven't thought much about. it's the only part of government with the senior most people do all the work. think about it. supreme court justices read the briefs and listen to all those arguments. it doesn't...
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his father-in-law more or less tinkers. he creates a maker that gets installed in a store in los angeles, a matter returned to productive economic life. what about little billy? billy is now 72, lives in anaheim. he became the recreational parachutist. more than 1100 free falls in his career until he finally stopped because of injury. anyway to work in the aviation industry. [laughter] he designed exit systems for airplanes and ultimately win in two operations for several major aviation centers. these photographs, these colors by, not prince, but slide that boxed up in villa manbo's closet for decades, which is why they look so great. kodachrome has enormous staying power if they are treated properly. he sat in the dark for 60 years, said they've been remarkably well preserved. colors are extraordinarily brilliant in the book can still see. they really sat there until i learned of them when working with pattani on this museum. send a few color photographs including one of the women gabby, most and i just did a triple take.
his father-in-law more or less tinkers. he creates a maker that gets installed in a store in los angeles, a matter returned to productive economic life. what about little billy? billy is now 72, lives in anaheim. he became the recreational parachutist. more than 1100 free falls in his career until he finally stopped because of injury. anyway to work in the aviation industry. [laughter] he designed exit systems for airplanes and ultimately win in two operations for several major aviation...
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law. they were busted by the clinton administration, stripped of insurance, but they have henry kissinger on the door, so they got everything worked out. this has 18,000 people working at 15,000 feet. straight down through glacier. it's the biggest gold mine and basically the biggest cotton - the world. but, people are shocked. there's a huge battle going on because they're putting 300,000 tons of waste every single day in the two rivers without, like in america you can't do that. but there you just play with on and it doesn't matter. so, what you are asking is to be pushed off and if you do you push it puts a to china who doesn't care. yeah it's much worse. at the bottom line is america is actually good about mining in terms of world standards we have the highest standards really of safety the you are talking about huge amounts of toxic metals that they admittedly don't know how to control. it is in the they don't want to be and i do not think they are evil by nature they just don't know
law. they were busted by the clinton administration, stripped of insurance, but they have henry kissinger on the door, so they got everything worked out. this has 18,000 people working at 15,000 feet. straight down through glacier. it's the biggest gold mine and basically the biggest cotton - the world. but, people are shocked. there's a huge battle going on because they're putting 300,000 tons of waste every single day in the two rivers without, like in america you can't do that. but there you...
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but by then, his brother-in-law, john kennedy, was running for president. shriver served us kennedy's chair for illinois and also head of the campaign civil rights division. in that capacity, leading a campaign, he convinced kennedy to telephone caruthers scott king in the matter of his imprisonment on the trumped up charges. it was a risky move given the residual racism that still tainted american life. but many analysts had concluded that the phone call attracted enough african-american votes to the democratic party that your to win a razor-thin victory to john kennedy. after the inauguration, president kennedy asked shriver to assume leadership as the founding director of the peace corps. when asked why he had selected his brother in law for the job, kennedy said that if the project were to become a flop, it would be easier to fire a member of the family when a political ally. when we look at the origins of the peace corps today we have to be careful not to read history backwards or to argue that the success of the peace corps was inevitable. it wasn't s
but by then, his brother-in-law, john kennedy, was running for president. shriver served us kennedy's chair for illinois and also head of the campaign civil rights division. in that capacity, leading a campaign, he convinced kennedy to telephone caruthers scott king in the matter of his imprisonment on the trumped up charges. it was a risky move given the residual racism that still tainted american life. but many analysts had concluded that the phone call attracted enough african-american votes...
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and that is a fully lawful fang and under the law of armed conflict. i would also say that if we had this announced policy would undermine the key thing that we need to build our several the fed -- cyber defenses which is the cooperation of other nation states. the nation will cooperate with a country that says that they're going to test the laws in the attack women and children and civilian property in the case of a cyber attack. we need their cooperation, especially as simpler defenses. it is not been autocratic enterprise spirit cyber has a dimension. and that's also don't believe that it would be supported by our people. and democracy things matter. the way you fight a war matters. 1994, a book a loss of four even a limited armed conflicts requires a substantial base of public support which can a road or reverse itself no matter how worthy the political objective and fair, inhumane, the penultimate one other point. i don't know why anybody would think that the u.s. military or civilians in u.s. government service would execute in order that was bla
and that is a fully lawful fang and under the law of armed conflict. i would also say that if we had this announced policy would undermine the key thing that we need to build our several the fed -- cyber defenses which is the cooperation of other nation states. the nation will cooperate with a country that says that they're going to test the laws in the attack women and children and civilian property in the case of a cyber attack. we need their cooperation, especially as simpler defenses. it is...
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school, what a career in law should be or how they should be thinking about the future of law and what the opportunities are. >> well, it's an obvious answer but one that a lot of people don't think. the first thing you have to do is ask you're why you want to go to law school. i think there are a lot of people who go to law school because they're not good at math and can't think of anything else to do. [laughter] and they often turn out to be very disappointed lawyers. i suppose the better way to put the question not so much why you want to go to law school, but why do you want to be a lawyer? and you ought to do some serious soul searching about that, because it's always a difficult profession, but particularly these days. if you want to go to serve your community perhaps as a prosecutor, for example, that's a good reason. there's something very gratifying about being able to stand up in court and say that you speak for your country. same is true on the other side. maybe you feel motivated to represent the rights of those people who are accused. that's another good reason. you know,
school, what a career in law should be or how they should be thinking about the future of law and what the opportunities are. >> well, it's an obvious answer but one that a lot of people don't think. the first thing you have to do is ask you're why you want to go to law school. i think there are a lot of people who go to law school because they're not good at math and can't think of anything else to do. [laughter] and they often turn out to be very disappointed lawyers. i suppose the...
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i had a law practice here in washington for many, many years. i did keep notes, and i felt ultimately, um, that i would put it together, and i'd piece it together for a magazine article. and then it expanded, and it became what it is right now. but always behind in my mind i want young people to know, i want young people to know that this ugliness happened. and so it took a while. my brother is a writer up in new york, and he was my editor for a while. i fired him three times, and i went back with the help of my wife back into my first year legal research because i had to certify, authorize this was a piece of nonfiction, and you have to put down. i felt with a memoir you could just wig it. well, you can't because once you start highlighting things, you have to get authority for it. you even have to get a concept from people who you put photographs in, the consent of the army, consent of all -- i had a letter from james meredith right after i left which is in the book it, and i wanted to put that in. my wife reminded me, well, you need his permi
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my son-in-law is currently on the pace of deployment and my daughter in the special operations and my heroes. fear is part of their everyday. although my name is in writing this chapter in the book i cannot take all the credit. i was still so broken at the time i was asked to write in a difficult expressing myself. there is input for my husband, gary, matthews wife theresa who was his high school sweetheart and worked with him on the student council and his naval academy friends. matthews story would not have been written without their input and i deeply thank them for all of their input. this book, "in the shadow of greatness" will help america to better understand the sacrificey and the courage of the brave men and women in the families of the greatest military force in the world. freedom is not free. god bless our military families in god bless america. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you ,-com,-com ma lisa. thank you mrs. freeman. war brings sorrow and weakness, but through the challengechallenge s we face over the past 10 years, we also got stronger. and seth lynn my cl
my son-in-law is currently on the pace of deployment and my daughter in the special operations and my heroes. fear is part of their everyday. although my name is in writing this chapter in the book i cannot take all the credit. i was still so broken at the time i was asked to write in a difficult expressing myself. there is input for my husband, gary, matthews wife theresa who was his high school sweetheart and worked with him on the student council and his naval academy friends. matthews story...
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law that's what i said back on july 25th. the only reason we ever allowed that vote on that proposal, as i said at that time, was that we constitutional muster. and that democrats, if they were really serious, they'd proceedo to a revenue bill that originated in the has as the a constitution requires and as iqr called on them to do again last week. to repeat, the so-called senatea bill is nothing more than ahing glorified sense of the senateen resolution. so let'sse put that convenient talking point aside from here on out. last night i told the president we'd be happy to look at whatwol are he -- whatever he proposes, but the truth is we're coming up against a hard deadline here. and as ie, said, this is a conversation we should have had months ago. and republicans respect about to write a blank -- aren't about to write a blank check for anything senate democrats put forward any just because we find ourselves at the w edge of the cliff. that wouldn't be fair to theou americanld people. that having been said, we'll see what th
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the grip of passion, and the law says, we give you something of an excuse. not a full excuse but we recognize that you couldn't control yourself. well, there's some people who have made the argument that they were in the grip of passion because somebody called them the infamous n-word. they strike the person, maybe they kill the person. and the argument becomes, can you or can your lawyer make the arguement to a jury that you were in the grip of passion because this person called you this particular word. now, in some jurisdictions, like washington, dc, you cannot even make that argument. washington, dc, the jurisdiction that has the "just words" doctrine, and the law says no matter what the word, no matter what somebody calls you, that's no excuse for using violence. but other jurisdictions say, we'll let you make that argument to a jury. >> host: professor kennedy, you write in the n-word book, there's nothing necessarily wrong with a white person saying the n-word, just as there is nothing necessarily wrong with a black person saying it. what should matte
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he was the first commissioner of the fcc, in which he wrote so many tough laws about stock trading, that when he was finished, he had a stock trading stocks and took his money out and put it into real estate. the way he made money he had now outlawed. [laughter] he went on to be the first irish american ambassador to great britain, as i said before. the first and probably the worst ambassador this country have seen. he did everything he possibly could to appease hitler. even when neville chamberlain, the author of the munich agreement, said that you cannot make a deal with hitler. kennedy kept trying. he returned to this country in 1940 in disgrace because he had made it clear that no american dollar support the british because they were going to get defeated. the only way americans could survive, he thought, was to make a deal with the germans and italians and japanese. but he said war would destroy the country, the united states. we would go back into depression, capitalism would be threatened. democracy would also be threatened. he became a pariah and an outsider in 1940. the last rem
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the cultural nature of human development, the accidental gorilla, peggy pascoe's book on law and race in america. daniel walker and his history of america between 1815 and 1848. ladies and gentlemen, niko pfund. anna. >> thank you very much for coming here. for listening to us talk friday afternoon. i'm so that we chose to spend your afternoon with us. i have spent 10 years working for a library in and spent about half of that time physically working in a library. as a director of nyu press, i am thrilled to be here and to talk to you about publishing. i was asked to give you a quick overview of our philosophy. it sounds a little pretentious, but i would say that in terms of how i look at what we do, it is squarely driven by the message of oup. we often say that we don't exist to make money, but we do have to make money to do the things that we exist to do. it really doesn't want form all the work that we engage in. personally, one aspect of what we do and it is a kind of publishing that i think that we do especially with well, take the work of scholars who exist speaking to members o
the cultural nature of human development, the accidental gorilla, peggy pascoe's book on law and race in america. daniel walker and his history of america between 1815 and 1848. ladies and gentlemen, niko pfund. anna. >> thank you very much for coming here. for listening to us talk friday afternoon. i'm so that we chose to spend your afternoon with us. i have spent 10 years working for a library in and spent about half of that time physically working in a library. as a director of nyu...
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. >> the rule of law committee for the ocean. it is said that geography is one of the most important factors because it is the most permanent. we saw the arctic icecap drop and it appears to be opening more this session. what does this trend mean in a generation for russia and canada? >> i did go to zero chapters to it in the book. he is very provocative. in the middle of roberto they predicted china who was our ally would become our adversary geographically. also he said united europe could be a competitor for the united states. with the arctic icecap, if the arctic was open for shipping and a friend would sail the northwest passage up green land and across canada that shipping in the northern arctic that could provide alternative routes that is somewhat less of an emphasis of the indian ocean. to bring russia closer to america fundamentally. it would make canada significant you have shale guest, the tar sand and the hydropower resources with open arctic it would be that much more significant. >> i would like to offer a quick co
. >> the rule of law committee for the ocean. it is said that geography is one of the most important factors because it is the most permanent. we saw the arctic icecap drop and it appears to be opening more this session. what does this trend mean in a generation for russia and canada? >> i did go to zero chapters to it in the book. he is very provocative. in the middle of roberto they predicted china who was our ally would become our adversary geographically. also he said united...
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alabama has instituted one of the harshest immigration laws in the united states. very similar to arizona's. >> host: you have a chapter in here about some young girls when school cans were first integrated. who were those girls? >> guest: um, are you speaking of the young african-american girls? >> host: yes, uh-huh. >> guest: well, the public schools in my, in my area were integrated in two steps. the first step was, um, the freedom of choice era can is what they called it when parents had the opportunity to send tear children to white -- their children to white schools if they wanted to. so my first black schoolmate was just one girl who was very shy, painfully shy, and then that was when i was in the fifth grade. then when i was in the eighth grade, the public schools were fully deselling ree gated, and that's when the races really began to mix in a way that had not been possible before in that area. >> host: where do your children go to school? >> guest: well, my children are grown now. i have, um, my youngest daughter is finishing up her degree at t the unive
alabama has instituted one of the harshest immigration laws in the united states. very similar to arizona's. >> host: you have a chapter in here about some young girls when school cans were first integrated. who were those girls? >> guest: um, are you speaking of the young african-american girls? >> host: yes, uh-huh. >> guest: well, the public schools in my, in my area were integrated in two steps. the first step was, um, the freedom of choice era can is what they...
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there's something called the fundamental law of traffic congestion that establishes that vehicle miles traveled increase roughly one for one with highway miles built. if you build it, they will drive, okay? the only way to make sure that our city streets are moved sufficiently is to charge people for it, to actually do what singapore does, second densest country in the world, and yet you can drive around it effortlylessly because they have that electronic road pricing thing that charges you for using these streets. america's cities are running, essentially, a soviet-style urban transit policy. they used to have grocery stores that would give away eggs and butter at far below market prices, the result was you couldn't get the goods. that's what we do with our city streets. they're a valuable commodity, and as a result, they're the urban equivalent of long lines which are traffic jams. there's no path other than actually making people pay for the cost of their actions. now, we already, of course, pay plenty, and one of the enduring challenges of cities is how to make them affordable. i k
there's something called the fundamental law of traffic congestion that establishes that vehicle miles traveled increase roughly one for one with highway miles built. if you build it, they will drive, okay? the only way to make sure that our city streets are moved sufficiently is to charge people for it, to actually do what singapore does, second densest country in the world, and yet you can drive around it effortlylessly because they have that electronic road pricing thing that charges you for...
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this law. that work is crucial, too. and for that reason, mr. president, i hope that on a bipartisan basis the amendments will be viewed favorably by the senate when we begin voting, and, mr. president, thank you for your indulgence for being part of this discussion, presiding in the chair, with special thanks to the distinguished majority leader, who gave me the opportunity to open this discussion about fisa this morning. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. mrs. feinstein: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. feinstein: mr. president, i'd like to make the opening statement, at least as the committee chair, on the bill that is before the snavment this bill is a simple bill. this is a house bill that extends -- reauthorizes the foreign intelligence surveillance act called the fisa amendment section 702. it the reauthorizes it until -- for five years until december 31, 2017. that is all it does. without senate action, these authorities to collect intell
this law. that work is crucial, too. and for that reason, mr. president, i hope that on a bipartisan basis the amendments will be viewed favorably by the senate when we begin voting, and, mr. president, thank you for your indulgence for being part of this discussion, presiding in the chair, with special thanks to the distinguished majority leader, who gave me the opportunity to open this discussion about fisa this morning. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. mrs. feinstein: mr....
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of the law. the wall is suppose to be the profession. if you are a member you are not satisfied with turning about. you know you have something special and you owe it to your community to use your talent to help make things a little better for others. i think another that commit herself to public service to make a living is necessary but also to remember the people that get what they need in their representation and will not have it unless you care. so they say i will do my job and i will collect my fees and i'm not interested in the rest of the world. i did not consider that person a true professional. >> we will do our best. i can't think he enough. this has been delightful and a treat for everyone here. let's all thank you for your time. [applause] [applause] >> it's comprehensive, you can sense what is happening without abundant interjecting and that's what i appreciate. it's a great resource for anyone looking to become more familiar with how government works and capitol hill. >> julie watch
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intervene on some level in this conflict, to beef up the case for the r2p doctrine, and international law is of fuzzy sort of subject and to some degree it is built on president. the united states, have to say, intervened in libya back in the early 1800's to support the basically where billion that would then move forward into account the unfriendly -- >> attacking our ships. >> yes. i mean, we can -- well, but what would have happened if -- here is a preventative doctrine. what would happen, and president obama makes this comment in the debate. if we had left him in power, you know, agitated with his your career omitted in tendency the blow up airplanes, i think that would have been an absolute disaster. i mean, i'm not in international air. and not in any position to debate the fine a point of that, but i think effectively this was a well played intervention. if anything else on the moral side think we have a responsibility to in some way, even the playing field because we are responsible to a large degree in empowering qaddafi for several years and giving him the means with which to su
intervene on some level in this conflict, to beef up the case for the r2p doctrine, and international law is of fuzzy sort of subject and to some degree it is built on president. the united states, have to say, intervened in libya back in the early 1800's to support the basically where billion that would then move forward into account the unfriendly -- >> attacking our ships. >> yes. i mean, we can -- well, but what would have happened if -- here is a preventative doctrine. what...
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towns all across the country in states across the country are beginning to institute censor laws in hollywood had rotted will rogers would then departing cabinet and kennedy now positioned himself as the non-jew and made himself indispensable to the industry as such. studio after studio hired him. at one point herein for major studios in at each of those he demanded to be paid in stock options. the time he left hollywood, he was a multimillionaire and he knew how to manipulate the stock options. he knew how to turn those pieces of paper into dollars, millions of dollars and he did. at age 50 learned how to make an advantage the disadvantage and had this millions and millions and millions of dollars. at age 50 he knew how the stock market were permanently stocks and bonds are treated and he knew the crash is coming up or that all his money so when the crash did come coming here is blessed with his million and extraordinary positions. and yet, with that crash will recess. from the recession now. we all know people who are suffering, but it doesn't compare to the depression of the 30s. kennedy w
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burmese people live under a fully democratic government that is transparent and respect the rule of law we must continue to push for reform. suu kyi said in oslo she accepted the nobel peace prize, quote, the piece of the world is as long as negative forces, the better forces anywhere for all at risk. every citizen of the world including those who live in the most free and safest conditions of the debt of gratitude to the helpful souls who put their lives on the line for democracy and freedom. there is no better example of that than the guest we have here today. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states secretary of state, the hon. hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> 17 years ago, as we were in beijing on behalf of the un conference concerning the rights of women, we fought about many of the women around the world who could not be with us but whose presence was a strong message of the values that we were promoting, values that were not just american values but universal values. madeleine albright left that conference in beijing, taking with harry poster signed by all the a
burmese people live under a fully democratic government that is transparent and respect the rule of law we must continue to push for reform. suu kyi said in oslo she accepted the nobel peace prize, quote, the piece of the world is as long as negative forces, the better forces anywhere for all at risk. every citizen of the world including those who live in the most free and safest conditions of the debt of gratitude to the helpful souls who put their lives on the line for democracy and freedom....
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but even in those letters he wrote in which he said, oh, you know, all the laws should expire every 20 years, this stuff, blah, blah, blah, it was always in context. it was something that was more practical and more hardheaded, ultimately, than it now seems when we read the one line or two. sure, thank you. same microphone in -- microphone? >> um, this reminds me of n a strange way, of, you know, jefferson's view as a renaissance man reminds me of, strangely enough, of the 1988 presidential campaign between dukakis and bush 41. >> i get that all the time. [laughter] >> i mean, but, you know, at that time i was a professor of mathematics at the university of massachusetts in amherst, and i remember bush who had graduated from yale boasting how he got an f in chemistry. and dukakis coming back weakly that, well, he only got a d in physics. >> right. >> and then at the same time i was reading from jefferson's library of america. there he is in 1789 writing a letter, he was awarded a honorary doctor of law degree from harvard university, but he was live anything france. >> right. >> so he
but even in those letters he wrote in which he said, oh, you know, all the laws should expire every 20 years, this stuff, blah, blah, blah, it was always in context. it was something that was more practical and more hardheaded, ultimately, than it now seems when we read the one line or two. sure, thank you. same microphone in -- microphone? >> um, this reminds me of n a strange way, of, you know, jefferson's view as a renaissance man reminds me of, strangely enough, of the 1988...
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laws on the pretext that they are trying to protect the voter rolls and voter fraud. indeed you see that we need to be as strong as our ancestors in the underlying pretext and that is and be as strong as they were in pursuing on keeping the rights we have gained from the 60s on. [applause] >> there's been quite a discussion coming in now in the states about this. the justice department as he now has been vigorously looking into these instances. i feel like looking back into history as useful. i think we often think about the civil rights movement in particular because it's more recent. the back to that those people who voted in hot office in the 1860s and 70s. those things matter and we do need to be vigilant in a democracy always about our rights as citizens of all stripes. i think it matters. >> i will completely agree and i think some people might say bring it. that might call for a third reconstruction precisely because of the backsliding that is unfolding right as we speak. >> i want to thank you for writing the book. i teach the douglas narratives are de facto f
laws on the pretext that they are trying to protect the voter rolls and voter fraud. indeed you see that we need to be as strong as our ancestors in the underlying pretext and that is and be as strong as they were in pursuing on keeping the rights we have gained from the 60s on. [applause] >> there's been quite a discussion coming in now in the states about this. the justice department as he now has been vigorously looking into these instances. i feel like looking back into history as...
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until he cantelli comes back to yell law school. there he meets hillary rodham. >> watch this and other programs on line at booktv.org. now on c-span2 we bring you booktv. on this holiday weekend we have extended our booktv programming until wednesday ,-com,-com ma december 26 at 8:00 a.m. eastern. here are some of the programs to look out for this weekend.
until he cantelli comes back to yell law school. there he meets hillary rodham. >> watch this and other programs on line at booktv.org. now on c-span2 we bring you booktv. on this holiday weekend we have extended our booktv programming until wednesday ,-com,-com ma december 26 at 8:00 a.m. eastern. here are some of the programs to look out for this weekend.
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you violated the laws. and i said, they were proud laws. their customs, they were tradition and we wanted america to be better. we wanted america to live it to the declaration of independence, live up to or create them make real our democracy. take it off of people and make it real. so when i got arrested the first time, i felt free. i felt liberated and today more than ever before, i feel free and liberated. you know, abraham lincoln 150 years ago freed the slaves. but it took the modern-day civil rights movement to free and liberate a nation. [applause] now i know some of you are asking, where did you get the name "across that bridge"? where did you get the title from? life lessons and a vision for change. take a few short years ago that this is an election year. hundreds of dozens of million people from virginia to texas. could not register to the based on the color of their skin. people stood in line. we take a state like the state of mississippi in 1963, 1964, 1965 and the voting age population more than 450,000, but only 16,000 were r
you violated the laws. and i said, they were proud laws. their customs, they were tradition and we wanted america to be better. we wanted america to live it to the declaration of independence, live up to or create them make real our democracy. take it off of people and make it real. so when i got arrested the first time, i felt free. i felt liberated and today more than ever before, i feel free and liberated. you know, abraham lincoln 150 years ago freed the slaves. but it took the modern-day...
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i would see the diplomatic security is working with every law enforcement agency in the world to make sure we're on the cutting edge any think we are achieving that. can we do better? i think every security agency can do better. but i fundamentally believe in my poor that they are the top of the heat as they relate to quality of technology and ability to protect us. >> is attrition a diplomatic security problem? if so, what are you doing to address that are >> i think attrition at the state department generally gets quite low. it came out were the third most likely place to work, part of that is the traitor people with respect. >> generally the whole state department divided between departments. a reliance on tv wise, people who are -- >> temporary points >> temporary employees. that's one of the examples are we examined the use and remind people coming for shorter periods of time than a year or six months and that assenting me to address and sending secretary clinton has consistently addressed to make sure we have the numbers. that's why we fast-forward additional diplomatic security
i would see the diplomatic security is working with every law enforcement agency in the world to make sure we're on the cutting edge any think we are achieving that. can we do better? i think every security agency can do better. but i fundamentally believe in my poor that they are the top of the heat as they relate to quality of technology and ability to protect us. >> is attrition a diplomatic security problem? if so, what are you doing to address that are >> i think attrition at...
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at columbia law school, they were very good guys. it is true that obama did his best. when i interview president obama in the oval office, he talked about the supporters in new york. but he started to make that transition in his long arc of his search for home. she was starting to happen and beenu mahmood was very perceptively seen that happen. >> host: why did the presidency president in new york after graduating from columbia? >> guest: he was trying to get a job wherever he could. he applied for a job in chicago after washington was elected mayor there. he didn't get anything. so the best he could do was stay in new york. he wouldn't want to go back to honolulu. he didn't have anyplace else. so he stayed there and as he put it, you try to make money for yourself and get a job. it is sort of a magazine or consulting firm called business international. for that year, he doesn't really like it there, but that is the period when they talk a lot. it is the period when he met genevieve. >> host: so david maraniss, going back to the quote, no life could have been the produ
at columbia law school, they were very good guys. it is true that obama did his best. when i interview president obama in the oval office, he talked about the supporters in new york. but he started to make that transition in his long arc of his search for home. she was starting to happen and beenu mahmood was very perceptively seen that happen. >> host: why did the presidency president in new york after graduating from columbia? >> guest: he was trying to get a job wherever he...